“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”

“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.”

“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”

“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”

“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”

“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.”

“If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.”